Man ‘made over 4,500 indecent calls to children’

A MAN who was married with four children made thousands of indecent calls to children as young as eight across Britain pretending to be a doctor carrying out sexual health checks, a court heard yesterday.

John Phillips is known to have made some 4,554 calls from telephone kiosks near his workplace to youngsters’ homes the length and breadth of Britain, Leicester Crown Court was told.

The well-spoken businessmen asked them personal questions and convinced some to strip and perform sex acts on themselves.